Yale Cabaret: DRAGARET

A Note from the Cab Team This one goes out to Uncle Johnny…

We’re so glad you’ve decided to join us for the 10th anniversary of Dragaret! As the Cab’s first all-Black leadership team, and given that it’s Black History Month, this year we wanted to celebrate a major moment in the evolution of drag culture: the Ballroom scene, and the Black Trans womxn who invented it.

Ballroom is as rich and prolific an art form as any we’ve ever seen, one that’s permeated every corner of popular culture and the modern vernacular. Before it was absorbed into the mainstream, it was a community of Black queer and trans artists seeking family and a safe space to be themselves. That’s all we really want, isn’t it? A safe space to BE. So, let’s give Ballroom her flowers. Tonight, we won’t be shady, just fierce…we’ll serve looks that land tens across the board…we won’t gag because we know she brings it to you every ball…and if you shoot an arrow and it goes really high, hooray for you!

WELCOME TO HOUSE OF PARACHUTE. We hope you’ll support these Queer Black orgs doing amazing work: House of Tulip A Place to Nourish The Okra Project The R.O.A.D. Project (Reuniting of African Descendants) Black Trans Fund -Jason, Kayodè & Ashley

DRAGARET

House of Parachute: A Celebration of Queer Culture PRODUCED BY Anne Ciarlone, Kemar Jewel*, and Natalie King

CREATIVE TEAM Stage Manager Lobby Display Sound Designer(s) Set Designer(s) Lighting Designer(s) Costume Designer(s) Projection Designer(s) Technical Director

Regina Carson Ashley M. Thomas & Linda-Crystal Young Evdoxia Ragkou & Bryn Scharenberg B Entsminger* & Pat Blanchard Jasmine Moore, David DeCarolis & Theo Song* Kyle Artone Doaa Ouf* & Ein Kim* Aholibama Castañeda Gonzalez

Hosts & Performers Locals Night Hosted by Laiylah Alf Wa Laiylah Tintanabulah* Jayde Aloure* Malaya love Nations* Dalyla Mizani Cristal* Songbird AngelLove* Dalyla Mizani Cristal* Bubblicious* Casey* Kareylis Bleau* Mz. October May Lay* Yale Night Hosted by Sheneeda Shave & Nomè SiDone DJ GARE Fire and Brynstone* Dalyla Mizani Cristal* Kate's Bush* S.L.U.T.S.* The Diamond Pussys*

*Yale Cabaret Debut

Special Thanks Joe Krempetz, Adi Orme, Hannah Tran, Constanza Etchechury López, Linda-Crystal Young, Madeline Pages, Suzu Sakai, Stephen Strawbridge, Sarah Scafidi

Mission

Yale Cabaret 55 is a transition; a space to place your art and watch it transform. We do not suggest that your art begins or ends with us, but it will change with us. We invite our community to take risks with us. Failure is not an option; it is an illusion. Like Pantone Color of the Year: Very Peri, we know that “as we emerge from an intense period of isolation, our notions and standards are changing, and our physical and digital lives have merged in new ways.” We seek to be a holding space to explore these changes.

Cabaret 55 is a shared experiment of what it means to come back to theater.

Values • The Cab is a studio • The Cab is a space for trial and error • The Cab is a space for fellowship • There is no utopia, only risk and commitment • There are no assignments, only invitations

Land Acknowledgement

The state of Connecticut and Yale University occupy the traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands of the Mohegan, Mashantucket Pequot, Eastern Pequot, Schaghticoke, Golden Hill Paugussett, Niantic, Quinnipiac, and other Algonquian speaking peoples. We honor and respect their continued relationship with and stewardship of this land, and we acknowledge that Yale University, Yale Cabaret, and those affiliated have benefited from the oppression of these Nations.

Labor Acknowledgement

Yale University does not exist independently from the centuries of forced labor and economic extraction of enslaved people, primarily of African descent, on which this country was built. We are indebted to their labor and their unwilling sacrifice, and we must acknowledge the ongoing violence inflicted on Black and brown people and the resulting impact and generational trauma still felt today.

Leadership Team Executive Artistic Director

Producing Artistic Director

Jason Gray

Kayodè Soyemi

Producing Artistic Director

Ashley M. Thomas

Production Managers

Leo Surach & Cameron Waitkun

Collaborators Graphic Designer

Community Engagement

Anchor Spa x Yale Cabaret

Website Designer

Marketing Associate

Cabaret Assistant

Mikayla Johnson

a.k. payne

Kayodè Soyemi

Chef Kendall Thigpen

Roman Sanchez

Ramona Li

Advisory Board Stage Management

Sound

Technical Design

Nakia Avila

Evdoxia Ragkou

Eugenio Saenz Flores

Theater Management

Scenic

Lighting

Fanny Abib-Rozenberg Dramaturgy

Projections

Lily Haje

Playwriting

Cat Raynor John Horzen

Danielle Stagger

Acting

Lucas Iverson

Jiahao (Neil) Qui Directing

Garrett Allen

Board of Directors Chair

Wendy Davies Jacob Basri Samanta Yunuen Cubias Eric M. Glover L.T. Gourzong Doug Robinson Linda-Cristal Young

Costumes

Kyle Artone

About the Cab In 1968, the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale students established a basement performance venue in the former home of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity at 217 Park Street.

Envisioned as an alternative outlet for drama school students’ creativity and experimentation, Yale Cabaret became a forum for our expanded New Haven communities, whom we invite to gather around food, drink, conversation, fellowship, and artistry.

Since its founding, the Cabaret has remained in continuous operation, including pivoting to virtual performance during the 2020/21 season. The Cab has produced hundreds of plays, old and new, alongside musicals and musical revues, comedy shows, dance, performance art, and genre-defying performance.

Our supporters have made this storied history happen. With their partnership, we continue this tradition into 2022 and beyond.

Our Supporters Honorary Season Producer ($7,500+)

Indira Etwaroo & The Benevity Community Impact Fund Parachuter ($5,000-$7,499)

Santino Blumetti Brian Tyree Henry

Champion ($2,500-$4,999)

Wendy Davies R. Lee Stump Partners ($1,000-$2,499)

Nina Adams & Moreson Kaplan Joan Channick Eric M. Glover, PhD James G. Hood Bennett Pudlin & Ann Judd Bill & Sharon Reynolds Elaine Ring

Show Sponsors ($500-$999)

Audrey Conrad Betty & Josh Goldberg Jim & Eileen Mydosh Anne Renner

Enthusiasts ($250-$499)

James A. Bundy & Anne Tofflemire Sarah Cain Pamela C. Jordan Corby S. Kummer Erin Rocha

What’s Next Cab 8

February 16-18th

Marry Me a Little by Stephen Sondheim

Proposed by Kemar Jewel & Fanny Abib-Rozenberg What’s LOVE got to do with it?? Marry Me A Little follows the story of two strangers moving into a cramped New York apartment while navigating personal space, sexual tensions, and what love looks like for one another. In this reimagined version of the show, the two strangers are Black queer men who learn how to mesh their big personalities and their bigger identities all into a less-than-spacious home.

Watch the men fall in love, fall out of love, and everything in between

Cab 9

February 23-25th

Udo

Written & Proposed by Abigail Onwunali & Nomè SiDone A Nigerian immigrant couple trying to create roots in a new country begin trying for a baby. What should be a simple process of love making amongst husband and wife turns into a tumultuous, life altering night of betrayal, submission and pain. Is their love strong enough to keep them anchored to each other? Or will they admit defeat, disappointing not only themselves but everyone back home?

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